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A++ @andyburnham.bsky.social @labourstart.bsky.social that’s the Britain my family (on several sides) fought for, since Chartism. You’ve almost convinced an old cynic like me to rejoin. Never thought that would happen! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Politics Live - Andy Burnham’s Speech to the Labour Party Conference

Andy Burnham delivers his first speech to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool as Prime Minister.

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Politics Live - Andy Burnham’s Speech to the Labour Party Conference

Andy Burnham delivers his first speech to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool as Prime Minister.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 20h

As we Brits say ‘ah, bless.’ It really must seem like super intelligence in his mind, in comparison to him.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Measuringe the value of educacioun by returne on ynvestment onlye ys lyke measuringe the value of a garden by the weight of the floweres

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yet, despite all of the [waveth handes 360 degrees], still so much beautye yn the worlde. So much art made by so manye, as strategyes for survival, consolacioun, courage, joy. And you, out ther, makinge somethinge beautiful. You are the best.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A.I. and corporate lingo are dragging language ynto drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave wet dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them. Save us.

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No To Racism @notoracism.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dear Human Race

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nearly a year has gone by since I wrote this article, and Brits can now escape to post-WWII Yorkshire in Season 7 of All Creatures Great and Small in the UK on Channel 5 Thursdays at 9pm, and on catch up. The series will premiere in the US from 17th January 2027 on PBS.

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All Creatures Great and Small: a Yorkshire phenomenon

The stories of Yorkshire-based vet ‘James Herriot’ are renowned. A Thirsk museum offers a fascinating insight into his life and times

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Teresa M @teresa.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

"Whilst in another school: “[An inspector] asked a non-verbal child what safeguarding was”." Read the stories here and tell me Ofsted shouldn't just be disbanded. Egomaniacs on a power trip.

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Teresa M @teresa.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

"Ofsted refusing to postpone inspections in the week after pupils or teachers had died, insisting on carrying out full inspections in the 40C temperatures: “we had to teach the full curriculum, including PE, and were criticised for the children not seeming engaged as they all sweated and cried.”"

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Teresa M @teresa.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

“A male inspector took a female Year 10 student (aged fourteen-fifteen) out of the classroom to ask her: ‘Have you ever been called a slag or a slut at school?’”

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Teresa M @teresa.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

Seriously, what are we doing about Ofsted??? "Poignantly, a few partners of head teachers responded, detailing their worries: “at the end of [an Ofsted visit] I might find myself on suicide watch for the very person I love the most.”"

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One Head Teacher’s story, that exemplifies many. How is treating people like this helping anyone? @lucympowell.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/E-Pg2...

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Ofsted ruined this headteacher's mental health #teacherlife #teaching

YouTube video by NASUWT - TV for Teachers

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jayanne.bsky.social @jayanne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s not helping pupils either . Children pick up on their teachers anxiety .

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vivlives002 @vivlives002.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Some years ago when I was teaching in a high school under inspection, the Headteacher asked every teacher to fill in a small slip after each classroom visit from an Inspector. Slips noted any incidents, behaviour, problems, positive and negative. As they inspected us, we monitored them. Useful.

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Steve @stephenh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It was always set up to bully teachers. It was Keith Joseph (he who thought the lower orders shouldn't breed) who decided that education was “failing” because of incompetent teachers. Thatcher‘s regime used the term “failing teachers”, and promised to root them out. Macho bully boy politics

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One Head Teacher’s story, that exemplifies many. How is treating people like this helping anyone? @lucympowell.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/E-Pg2...

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Ofsted ruined this headteacher's mental health #teacherlife #teaching

YouTube video by NASUWT - TV for Teachers

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jayanne.bsky.social @jayanne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

OFSTED set up to monitor educators were following the new imposed National Curriculum . Now sit in judgement over teachers rather than supporting them .

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I mean, this is truly insane. We are paying £££millions for these people to bully teachers and headteachers into breakdown and resignation - still going on 3 years after I wrote the article below. @lucympowell.bsky.social

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New Ofsted inspection regime is damaging our health, headteachers say

School leaders’ union says new system is worse than one it replaced and has left members feeling overwhelmed

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

theguardian.com

New Ofsted inspection regime is damaging our health, headteachers say

School leaders’ union says new system is worse than one it replaced and has left members feeling overwhelmed

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

OK, more OFSTED horror stories and time to post this again. @lucympowell.bsky.social the culture of this organisation is *never* going to change. Disbanding them and stepping up HMI duties would not only save a lot of sadness for children and teachers, but also a lot of money. #EduSky

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

‘We felt like criminals’ – teachers talking Ofsted

Over 3,000 teachers have contributed to a spreadsheet laying bare the anguish of Ofsted inspections

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

‘Sometimes I just sits, sometimes I sits and thinks.’ #DogsOfBlueSky

Finn, the maltipoo and a pile of cushions.

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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

With all that’s going on in Ukraine, Gaza, West Bank, Hormuz, Iran etc….etc, this is the bbc HEADLINE News : 🇬🇧 Stuck up, entitled toff, calls another stuck up, entitled toff, an absolute prick 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As a ‘naturalised’ Yorkshire person (a Londoner born and bred, now lived here for 40 years) I think there is a lot to recommend this. Give us back our Ridings in full and a devolved administration! And I think Cornwall deserves the same. @mayorofwy.bsky.social #Yorkshire

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Harrogate MP calls for Yorkshire to get its own parliament

Harrogate Lib Dem MP Tom Gordon says Yorkshire devolution should go further than elected mayors.

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Ann @ann.sheshed.rocks · 20/09/2026

Not only do they muzzle the intelligent they muzzle the media and/or own the media so that the truth is hidden from the populace! It’s so important to stay connected to the independent journalists, read Substack and listen to NPR! #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

‘I could make my horse a senator. I think I’m gonna do that.’ While the world looks on in horror and amazement. Whoever thought it could come to this, 2000 years later.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

‘I could make my horse a senator. I think I’m gonna do that.’ While the world looks on in horror and amazement. Whoever thought it could come to this, 2000 years later.

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Teresa M @teresa.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

This podcast episode by @covingtonedu.bsky.social has a lot of interesting points about PISA. For example, I had no idea that the sampling doesn't account for how many students are excluded and that in 2012 almost half of 15 year olds were not included in the cycle. How is it representative?

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And this tells a very different story. What is happening to children worldwide? Many also share the same juvenile mental health problems with the U.K. It’s time to stop the self congratulatory bilge and start seriously considering the real issues causing this.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So, why do we have record numbers of young people with mental health problems and such a huge % of 18-25 year old NEETs? I’d suggest this must be because the sample examined in this test has been somehow skewed, meaning that the results are not valid.

thetimes.com

Deprived pupils thrive after school reform but the left doesn’t like it

It’s clear from Pisa rankings what the best education systems do

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

the type of schools being praised here usually have much higher than average exclusion rates and the average rate for England and Wales is also above the OECD rate and keeps rising

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jayanne.bsky.social @jayanne.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The ability to decode is one thing. Enjoyment , gaining pleasure from reading is essential . If the process of learning to read is not fun but a chore , then test results mean nothing .

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor." - Campbell's Law

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Deprived pupils thrive after school reform but the left doesn’t like it

It’s clear from Pisa rankings what the best education systems do

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We are all straungeres. We are all lost. But we nevir are alone. Helpe somebodye. Give somebodye a kynde worde. Take comfort yn goode wordes and music and art from the past or present. And be kynde to thyselfe too. Thou art doinge thy best.

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Wombat @thewombat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The super rich are openly trying to buy elections now, and anyone who thinks they're doing it for "the people" is dumber than dirt.

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Labour should have acted quicker to stop this - and it may seriously regret not doing so

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Another £36m for Farage from another crypto billionaire (the one who previously gave him £5m). UK politics - and the UK itself - is being bought.

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Christopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben Zelo

Party leader, Nigel Farage, says he is humbled by the contributions from cryptocurrency billionaires

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I see Reform is getting loads of money from wealthy donors. And they profess to be a movement for those living in deprived areas. I hope therefore they will be putting some of that windfall into relevant charities. Hopefully Farage will make the announcement in his constituency office next week.

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Christopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben Delo

Party leader, Nigel Farage, says he is humbled by the contributions from cryptocurrency billionaires

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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 10/09/2026

And TBH that's why we're on bsky instead of Twitter.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I find it difficult to believe AI could kill all human beings, if those working with it are vigilant. I do however think it would be possible for AI to impact on our mental health to the point we’re unable to cope with life in the real world. It’s got a model in what we’ve already done to each other

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

The social media wasp factory

We must fumigate the social media wasp factory that relentlessly stings populations into fear and anxiety, triggering irrational and injurious reactions

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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This ⬇️

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The social media wasp factory

We must fumigate the social media wasp factory that relentlessly stings populations into fear and anxiety, triggering irrational and injurious reactions

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 60th birthday Star Trek! Here’s your best meme ever… in my opinion.

Infinite diversity in infinite combinations, ‘the way our differences combine to create meaning and beauty.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A Reform government would force schools to sing the National Anthem and if they don't oblige parents will be encouraged to report them to the authorities. Yeah that's not like really scary and authoritarian schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-there...

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Reform: 'There will be consequences for not singing anthem'

Braverman believes parents will tip her off if heads don't follow her anthem and hymns rules

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